The Apple Eco system

[︻芫═──]

Well Hello there, I'm new to the LTT Forums and when I linked my steam account I didn't realize it would not let me actually put in my name but I'm Camden but I usually go by Cam.

 

Basically I didn't know how to make a video suggestion but maybe they are planning something like this already but I wanted to know your opinion on the "Apple Ecosystem " ( I'm sorry pc fans ) I recently completed my apple "family" with having my mac, Ipad, watch and of course Iphone. Personally although most dislike the high price tag and " useless features " I've been quite enjoying the features that bring all of my devices together. I'd love to see a video about all of it working cohesively but for now I just thought I'd ask for your opinions.  

[Guest]

I have given Apple chances and so many others have as well. 

[ThinkWithPortals]

I dislike Apple devices in general, but I must admit, the way the devices can work together with each other in a cohesive (albeit closed) ecosystem is really nice. I guess that's what comes of having your watch, phone, tablet, laptop and desktop all made by the same company.

[Beef Boss]

K cam. Apple is just too expensive for me, and I prefer android or Windows.

[︻芫═──]

1 minute ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

I dislike Apple devices in general, but I must admit, the way the devices can work together with each other in a cohesive (albeit closed) ecosystem is really nice. I guess that's what comes of having your watch, phone, tablet, laptop and desktop all made by the same company.

 

can understand your dislike for them. It took me awhile to warm up to it myself but, once you set everything up the way you want the feeling of starting a task on one device and being able to pick it up right again on a different one is a beautiful thing 

[Beef Boss]

1 minute ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

can understand your dislike for them. It took me awhile to warm up to it myself but, once you set everything up the way you want the feeling of starting a task on one device and being able to pick it up right again on a different one is a beautiful thing 

Android and Windows can do anything

[︻芫═──]

1 minute ago, AustinBelleman said:

Android and Windows can do anything

 

Fair enough Fair enough, I won't sit here arguing for apple because that wasn't my intent I wanted to see how some others saw it, but I feel like if Windows had that same feeling of continuity that you experience with the apple family of products.

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

can understand your dislike for them. It took me awhile to warm up to it myself but, once you set everything up the way you want the feeling of starting a task on one device and being able to pick it up right again on a different one is a beautiful thing 

That maybe true, but that itself is not enough for a lot of people to go for Apple. 

[Dabombinable]

21 minutes ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

can understand your dislike for them. It took me awhile to warm up to it myself but, once you set everything up the way you want the feeling of starting a task on one device and being able to pick it up right again on a different one is a beautiful thing 

And Windows 10 will soon allow you to do the same thing, with any device running Windows, mobile or fixed.

[ThinkWithPortals]

21 minutes ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

can understand your dislike for them. It took me awhile to warm up to it myself but, once you set everything up the way you want the feeling of starting a task on one device and being able to pick it up right again on a different one is a beautiful thing 

I know what you mean. I wouldn't switch entirely from Windows/Android products to Apple products just for the ecosystem, but for example if I already had an iPhone and needed a tablet I would seriously consider an iPad over anything else just for the continuity.

[Mr.Meerkat]

22 minutes ago, AustinBelleman said:

Android and Windows can do anything

So android can run IOS? I think not  

[Beef Boss]

5 minutes ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

So android can run IOS? I think not  

The system doesn't allow terrible OS,

[︻芫═──]

5 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

I know what you mean. I wouldn't switch entirely from Windows/Android products to Apple products just for the ecosystem, but for example if I already had an iPhone and needed a tablet I would seriously consider an iPad over anything else just for the continuity.

Yeah I get where you are coming from, I'm not exactly sure what microsoft has to offer as far as bringing your devices together but I just love the feeling of having everything that I'm working on or using wherever I need it to be when I need it to be

[Beef Boss]

1 minute ago, ︻芫═── said:

Yeah I get where you are coming from, I'm not exactly sure what microsoft has to offer as far as bringing your devices together but I just love the feeling of having everything that I'm working on or using wherever I need it to be when I need it to be

You can use Windows tablets as a second and smaller monitor. 

[Mr.Meerkat]

1 minute ago, AustinBelleman said:

The system doesn't allow terrible OS,

Nah, apart from how uncustomizable IOS is, you can't really say it's the worse OS...

[Beef Boss]

1 minute ago, Mr.Meerkat said:

Nah, apart from how uncustomizable IOS is, you can't really say it's the worse OS...

Yeah. Being the worst is my opinion entirely. The worst probably will be Hannah Montana linux. Just saying.

[bydus]

I've been iphone user for years and switched to android once and didn't like it - apps installing themselves, adds on home screen etc. I felt my device was being used by someone else all the time. iOS is simple and it does everything I need. Recently I got myself macbook air - my first mac ever and I love it, you can't beat apple touchpad its amazing to use and very comfortable. Installed Windows 10 bootcamp few days ago and so far its best laptop for windows 10 i've used (mainly because of trackpad) - bootcamp installs everything for you and you can run windows 10 bootcamp partition from within mac os with pararells VM as well. I needed windows as some office apps are only on that platform but so far its an amazing laptop and i also love how you can read, reply messages on macos when you connect it with iphone. I guess saying "once you go mac you never go back " is correct   

[Beef Boss]

2 minutes ago, bydus said:

I've been iphone user for years and switched to android once and didn't like it - apps installing themselves, adds on home screen etc. I felt my device was being used by someone else all the time. iOS is simple and it does everything I need. Recently I got myself macbook air - my first mac ever and I love it, you can't beat apple touchpad its amazing to use and very comfortable. Installed Windows 10 bootcamp few days ago and so far its best laptop for windows 10 i've used (mainly because of trackpad) - bootcamp installs everything for you and you can run windows 10 bootcamp partition from within mac os with pararells VM as well. I needed windows as some office apps are only on that platform but so far its an amazing laptop and i also love how you can read, reply messages on macos when you connect it with iphone. I guess saying "once you go mac you never go back " is correct   

 

[︻芫═──]

5 minutes ago, bydus said:

I've been iphone user for years and switched to android once and didn't like it - apps installing themselves, adds on home screen etc. I felt my device was being used by someone else all the time. iOS is simple and it does everything I need. Recently I got myself macbook air - my first mac ever and I love it, you can't beat apple touchpad its amazing to use and very comfortable. Installed Windows 10 bootcamp few days ago and so far its best laptop for windows 10 i've used (mainly because of trackpad) - bootcamp installs everything for you and you can run windows 10 bootcamp partition from within mac os with pararells VM as well. I needed windows as some office apps are only on that platform but so far its an amazing laptop and i also love how you can read, reply messages on macos when you connect it with iphone. I guess saying "once you go mac you never go back " is correct   

 

haha couldn't agree more with you. I'm using a 2015 macbook pro linked with my Iphone 6s and my apple watch. As it was mentioned above the ability to have everything together is great. 

 

12 minutes ago, AustinBelleman said:

You can use Windows tablets as a second and smaller monitor. 

When I was referring to everything working together that wasn't exactly what I meant, With my apple products I can use handy features like handoff that allow me to begin typing something on for example my mac book then being able to swipe up right off my lock screen and keep going on my iphone with no interruption and no drop. Or  the lovely Icloud linking for your features like Keynote pages and Numbers where like with handoff, everything is everywhere you would possibly need it to be

[Beef Boss]

6 minutes ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

haha couldn't agree more with you. I'm using a 2015 macbook pro linked with my Iphone 6s and my apple watch. As it was mentioned above the ability to have everything together is great. 

 

When I was referring to everything working together that wasn't exactly what I meant, With my apple products I can use handy features like handoff that allow me to begin typing something on for example my mac book then being able to swipe up right off my lock screen and keep going on my iphone with no interruption and no drop. Or  the lovely Icloud linking for your features like Keynote pages and Numbers where like with handoff, everything is everywhere you would possibly need it to be

Kinda yeah 

[TetraSky]

38 minutes ago, bydus said:

I've been iphone user for years and switched to android once and didn't like it - apps installing themselves, adds on home screen etc. I felt my device was being used by someone else all the time. iOS is simple and it does everything I need. Recently I got myself macbook air - my first mac ever and I love it, you can't beat apple touchpad its amazing to use and very comfortable. Installed Windows 10 bootcamp few days ago and so far its best laptop for windows 10 i've used (mainly because of trackpad) - bootcamp installs everything for you and you can run windows 10 bootcamp partition from within mac os with pararells VM as well. I needed windows as some office apps are only on that platform but so far its an amazing laptop and i also love how you can read, reply messages on macos when you connect it with iphone. I guess saying "once you go mac you never go back " is correct   

You had Ads on the home screen of Android? Apps were installing by themselves? You felt it was being "used" by someone else ? 

I feel like you were doing something wrong here.

[MrDynamicMan]

1 hour ago, ︻芫═── said:

 

Fair enough Fair enough, I won't sit here arguing for apple because that wasn't my intent I wanted to see how some others saw it, but I feel like if Windows had that same feeling of continuity that you experience with the apple family of products.

I can personally speak that the Google ecosystem is OK. Docs is magical, Gmail is great, and Android very usable. I wish they'd drop Google + though. 

[Beef Boss]

1 minute ago, MrDynamicMan said:

I can personally speak that the Google ecosystem is OK. Docs is magical, Gmail is great, and Android very usable. I wish they'd drop Google + though. 

Oogle-

[MrDynamicMan]

49 minutes ago, bydus said:

I've been iphone user for years and switched to android once and didn't like it - apps installing themselves, adds on home screen etc. I felt my device was being used by someone else all the time. iOS is simple and it does everything I need. Recently I got myself macbook air - my first mac ever and I love it, you can't beat apple touchpad its amazing to use and very comfortable. Installed Windows 10 bootcamp few days ago and so far its best laptop for windows 10 i've used (mainly because of trackpad) - bootcamp installs everything for you and you can run windows 10 bootcamp partition from within mac os with pararells VM as well. I needed windows as some office apps are only on that platform but so far its an amazing laptop and i also love how you can read, reply messages on macos when you connect it with iphone. I guess saying "once you go mac you never go back " is correct   

Dude... That's very not normal. Your phone probably had a virus. 

[Fancyland]

1 hour ago, ︻芫═── said:

When I was referring to everything working together that wasn't exactly what I meant, With my apple products I can use handy features like handoff that allow me to begin typing something on for example my mac book then being able to swipe up right off my lock screen and keep going on my iphone with no interruption and no drop. Or  the lovely Icloud linking for your features like Keynote pages and Numbers where like with handoff, everything is everywhere you would possibly need it to be

Being able to use your iPhone as a laser presenter/pointer when giving a Keynote presentation is awesome as well. 

Can't find an app for my iPhone to do that with Powerpoint.